Bluefish Development
Bluefish is an open source project, released under the GNU GPL licence. Bluefish development is mostly coordinated on the bluefish-community mailinglist (see below). On the list, both users, developers and testers can give their opinion on new features, bug fixes and GUI improvements.
Contact
If you want to join the community, most activity takes place on the mailing lists. Please use the mailing lists for general questions about the program or the development. You can contact olivier (at) bluefish.openoffice.nl for questions regarding the bluefish project management.
Bluefish is on Facebook, but most developers are no longer active Facebook users.
Reporting Bugs
For bugreports please go to our bugtracker.
Mailing lists
Bluefish recently switched to a new mailinglist to discuss development, features, bugs, ideas, etc. You can subscribe at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluefish-community. There are also archives for the community list.
Our old mailing lists can also be read as newsgroups at gmane bluefish-dev and gmane bluefish-users.
Help needed
Help is welcome on various parts:
- We are working on more plugins, which requires some C, gtk or python knowledge
- Writing the manual in our wiki
- Translations - several languages are out of date, see the WiKi
- Testing
- Creating packages - we currently lack a Mandrake and a Suse maintainer!
- Better native Windows support, there are many bugs specific to windows reported!
- Better native Mac support
Code in Subversion
Bluefish uses SVN (Subversion) hosted by Sourceforge to manage the code. You can browse the repository on-line.
To build the latest Bluefish version from SVN:
svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/bluefish/code/trunk/bluefish cd bluefish ./autogen.sh ./configure make su -c "make install"For more information see the wiki page Compiling Bluefish from source code.
Bleeding edge Debian/Ubuntu packages
There is a Bluefish-snapshots PPA at https://launchpad.net/~klaus-vormweg/+archive/ubuntu/bluefish-snapshots. Use these at your own risk, the software in these packages is still under development!
Debian/Ubuntu packages can also be created from the subversion repository. These are NOT official packages and should only be distributed as "bluefish-unstable". Only use the script and the created packages if you follow the development. For "normal" users, official packages are available here.
svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/bluefish/code/trunk/bluefish cd bluefish ./make-deb.shOther projects from Bluefish developers
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